Tony Romm reports: One of the House’s top online privacy advocates is promising legislation next year that would allow parents and children to opt out of being tracked on various websites. The forthcoming bill, to be authored by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass), will heavily emphasize “Do Not Track” technology – tools that can be built…
Category: Youth & Schools
TSA plans dangerous to children, harmful and degrading to abuse victims
Daniel Tencer reports: An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a “game”. Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA’s recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a…
FTC Settles with Company that Failed to Tell Parents that Children’s Information Would be Disclosed to Marketers
EchoMetrix, Inc., has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to adequately inform parents using its web monitoring software that information collected about their children would be disclosed to third-party marketers. EchoMetrix sells its Sentry software to parents to allow them to monitor their children’s online activities. When Sentry is installed on a computer,…
Transparency, Anonymity, and Internet Threats Against Children
Lyrissa Lidsky provides additional analysis of a court opinion discussed previously on this blog: A new case from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals pits the public interest in open and “transparent” legal proceedings against plaintiffs’ rights to proceed anonymously when they fear retaliation. This case, Doe v. Kamehameha Schools, 596 F.3d 1036 (9th Cir. 2010), is unusual…